A Houston man who police say kidnapped his ex-girlfriend and then fled south was arrested in Houston earlier today, according to the FBI.

The incident took place on June 11, by the entrance to a JC Penney at a mall in Champaign, a city of about 80,000 about 130 miles south of Chicago.

According to Champaign police, a 19-year-old woman and a friend of hers, a 22-year-old man, were sitting outside the mall, when three men drove up to them in a red Chevy Silverado pickup truck.

Police said they believe Eduardo Guerro Cortez, 25, forced the woman, his ex-girlfriend, into the pickup truck, which he had borrowed from a friend. Whie he was forcing her into the truck, one of the other men with him threatened the woman's companion with a 12-inch black knife.

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Cortez, a former Illionoian who police said had his victim's name tattooed on his neck and was missing three fingers on his right hand, had last been living in Houston, according to authorities.

After the abduction, police and FBI agents sent notices across the country, alerting media outlets that they believed Cortez was heading south.

Hours later, at about 2:30 a.m., Cortez was arrested in Houston on the 6200 block of Gulfton Street without incident, according to Shauna Dunlap, an FBI spokeswoman. He was booked into a Houston jail with a $999,999 bail.